Adam Bailey

Adam Bailey was a farmer but he did go to the gold rush and brought back enough gold to purchase land in Missouri for a farm so they could be a farming family. Adam Bailey and Sarah Anderson (Bailey) are both buried in Missouri.

Adam BAILEY b. abt. 1828 IN

m. Sarah ANDERSON b. abt 1837 KY

children: f- Louisa b. abt 1859 Clark Co.,MO

m- Joseph E. b. abt 1860 Clark Co., MO

m- Ellsworth b. 1862 Clark Co., MO

f- Eliza b. abt 1866 Clark Co., MO

m- Aval b. abt 1867 Clark Co., MO

f- Annie b. abt 1869 Clark Co., MO

Colonel Ellsworth Bailey b. 1862 , married Jan. 26 1886 Emma Josephine HARSH

in Missouri, Clark Co. They moved from MO to ST. PAUL ,MINNESOTA

shortly after marriage. Their children are:

Eugene (Gene) Bailey

Lottie Belle Bailey= married Silas Sylvester BUTRUM in

Morrison Co.,Little Falls, MN in 1909. Lottie b. 1891 MO

Harry Bailey

Roy Bailey=b. 1894 d.1974 WAGR US ARMY, his wife name is Fannie

Floyd Bailey= was in Webster City, IA in 1920

Belva Bailey= was in Minneapolis,MN in 1920 & soon married Clark Percival Anderson

Ernestine (Tina)Bailey= married Earl Flansburg

Evenlyn Bailey = married Floyd Hollingshead

Kermit Bailey = b. 18 Mar 1905 d. Feb. 1980 = was in Army -England in 1944

Raymond Bailey = died at age 5 (kicked by a horse)

Loren Bailey

1). bobspu.ged The story is told of Adam Bailey joining the Gold Rush to the West, and that he returned with a suitcase full of gold with which he purchased his land in Clark Co., Missouri.

After possibly starting in Hardy Co., WVA, Robert Bailey moved to Pickaway Co.,
Ohio ca. 1815 (to “Military Reservation”: land res. for Revol. War
veterans) perhaps after having four children in VA (source: Noah
Bailey bio. sketch, 1887)
Moved to Knox Co., Indiana ca. 1820, abt. 18 mi N of Vincennes on
the Wabash.
Moved to St. Louis, MO in 1845 or 1846, around time of Maria’s
death. Robert died in cholera epidemic of 1849.
Re: Mary Conrad was a daughter of John Conrad and Magdalena
family of Augusta and Pendleton Counties, VA. (Pendleton
now is in West Virginia).

Some surnames among the descendents are Bogue, Spurgeon, Johnson,
Rauch, Hedges, and Booth.